Deploying to a shared host - need help

Rails
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I’m a rails novice, and I took on a freebie gig for Got it all working
locally on my machines. Loaded it up on my shared host. Followed the
instructions for deployment here:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToInstallOnSite5

I continue to get
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

The production log stack trace pasted below - has to do with undefined
method - downcase in action_controller.

I had been getting some support from my host, but they seem to have
stopped responding. They seemed to think it had to do with different
versions of rails, so I froze my gems and uploaded them and am still
having issues. If I run webrick via SSH I can connect on port 3000, so
this seems to be an apache/fastcgi issue. I’m using Rails 1.1.6 and the
latest gems.

Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks!

Brian

STACK TRACE:

undefined method downcase' for nil:NilClass /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/request.rb:18:in method’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:933:in
log_processing' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:407:in process_without_filters’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:377:in
process_without_session_management_support' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:117:in process’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in
dispatch' dispatch.rb:10 undefined method downcase’ for nil:NilClass
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/request.rb:18:in
method' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:933:in log_processing’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:407:in
process_without_filters' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:377:in process_without_session_management_support’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:117:in
process' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in dispatch’
./dispatch.cgi:10

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I’m getting the same error with another shared host. Again I can get
the app running within SSH so def. seems to be an Apache/FCGI error.
This seems to be a new problem as can only find a couple of posts and
they all started this month.

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Daniel wrote:

I’m getting the same error with another shared host. Again I can get
the app running within SSH so def. seems to be an Apache/FCGI error.
This seems to be a new problem as can only find a couple of posts and
they all started this month.

Daniel,

I was able to get this working. At one point, it was simply that I had
overwritten my environment.rb file with one that was pointing to a dev
DB that didn’t exist. I also had to update my .htaccess file in my
public folder to use fcgi - perhaps you’ve already done that… A lot
of my issues just had to do with this being my first time deploying a
rails app.